Stranger Songs
Tuesday September 6th, 2022 with Mike Regenstreif
Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History
The theme for this edition of Stranger Songs – with our broadcast falling on the day after Labour Day – is Songs of Work and Jobs, Labour and Labour History.
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fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy |
Bread and Roses Judy Collins - Bread and Roses - Elektra |
Winnipeg 1919 Joe Jencks - The Coming of the Years - Turtle Bear Music |
Pie in the Sky Windborne - Of Hard Times & Harmony - Wand’ring Feet |
Down on the Picket Line Sue Massek - Precious Memories: An Original Play by Si Kahn - Strictly Country |
Which Side are You On? Magpie - When We Stand Together - Longtail |
Solidarity Forever Sue Jeffers - Up with the Masses - FB! |
Cold Missouri Waters James Keelaghan - History: The First 25 Years - Borealis |
fragment of The Stranger Song Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen - Columbia/Legacy |
Schoolday's Over The Short Sisters - A Little Gracefulness - Black Socks Press |
In Tall Buildings John Hartford - Essential Recordings: Good’le Days - Rounder |
Work John McCutcheon - Leap! - Appalsongs |
All Used Up Utah Phillips - The Long Memory - Red House |
Night Nurse Shelley Posen - Ontario Moon - Well Done Music |
Mrs. Linda Nancy White - Unexpected - Borealis |
Sewing Machines Grit Laskin - Unabashedly Folk - Borealis |
Speed Up Maria Dunn - Piece By Piece - Distant Whisper |
Millworker Priscilla Herdman - Forgotten Dreams - Flying Fish |
Working Poor David Francey - Torn Screen Door - Laker Music |
Workin’ for Wages James Talley - Nashville City Blues - Cimarron |
Aragon Mill Rosalie Sorrels - The Long Memory - Red House |
U.S. Steel Tom Russell - Old Songs Yet to Sing - Frontera |
Unemployment Blues Odetta - Blues Everywhere I Go - M.C. |
Put Your Toolbox Down Kat Goldman - The Workingman’s Blues - Kat Goldman |
Hymn to Friday Oscar Brown, Jr. - The Voice of Cool - Not Now Music |
Working Joe Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage - Fogarty’s Cove/Borealis |
Joe Hill Leon Bibb - Praising Peace: A tribute to Paul Robeson - Stony Plain |
Great show! HIGHLY appropriate. You just mentioned nursing, other front-line implied (I would add cleaning, orderlies, blood-work, physio, social workers etc etc) And YES Ottawa Heart Institute is 'The A Team' top to bottom. Been there done that.
4:21 PM, September 6th, 2022